Mamata Banerjee

Politics in West Bengal is hard to discuss without referencing one of its most defining rivalries — Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee versus Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari. What began as a mentor-protégé relationship within the…
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday met Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi to raise concerns over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state ahead of the upcoming Assembly…
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday sharply criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state’s electoral roll, warning…
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The alleged gangrape of a second-year student at a private medical college in Durgapur, West Bengal, has triggered a political storm in the state, with the BJP targeting the ruling TMC government over alleged lapses in law and order. The…
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has condemned as “scandalous, insulting, anti-national, and unconstitutional” a Delhi Police letter dated August 3 that referred to Bengali (Bangla) as a “Bangladeshi language.” The remark sparked…
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a scathing attack on BJP-governed states, accusing them of systematically targeting Bengali-speaking workers through harassment, detentions, and even alleged pushbacks into…
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A CBI court in West Bengal's Kolkata will pronounce the quantum of punishment on Monday afternoon for Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted of raping and murdering a 31-year-old duty doctor inside the state-run RG Kar Medical College and…
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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced her decision to remove Vineet Goyal as Kolkata Police commissioner (CP) and transfer a section of top officials at the police as well as the state health departments from their respective…
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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday night accepted the bulk of the demands made by agitating junior doctors, including the removal of Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal, the director of medical education (DME) and the…
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The West Bengal government on Monday re-invited agitating junior doctors to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s house in Kolkata for talks. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 5 pm today. On Monday, in an email, Bengal Chief Secretary…
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